1. Hold a plastic fork in your left hand (if you are right-handed)so that it is parallel to the table with the tines facing down as shown in the diagram to the right.

2. Hold the lighter with your right hand underneath the fork near the top of the handle where the head of the fork meets the handle. (See diagram to the right.) *Do not hold the lighter too close to the fork because it could catch fire. You only want to heat it up. (This part of the craft is for adults only. Children should not use lighters.) When the fork starts to melt and bend remove the lighter and bend the head of the fork down so that it meets the handle. Hold it in place for about ten seconds until the plastic hardens.

3. You can break off some of the times by just snapping them off. Place your fingernail on the tine where you would like it to break off and then bend the tine up until it snaps off.

4. Draw a picture of a walrus as shown above or use the pattern (Available to members).

5. Cut out the walrus, color it and fold it in half. Cut along the mouth with paper folded.

6. Place the tines through the mouth as shown in the picture and glue the head to the fork.

7. Place the handle of the fork in your pocket and let the walrus hang over your pocket.

Walrus Paper Plate Craft

1. Glue two big plates together, top-to-top, for the body and two small plates together, top-to-top, for the head. Glue the head to the body.

2. To make the muzzle fold a small paper plate in half and then fold back the sides as shown in the diagram to the right. Glue the folded sides to the back of the plate. Push up the top, bottom part of the paper plate and glue it in place as shown in the diagram. Cut the scoop ends off two spoons and glue the spoons inside the muzzle for the tusks.

3. Glue the muzzle to the head.

4. Cut a small paper plate in half and glue the halves to the body to make fins as shown in the picture.

5. Paint the paper plates and them let dry. Add eyes and yarn to make the whiskers. Use a black marker to draw the nose.

1. Hold a plastic fork in your left hand (if you are right-handed) so that it is parallel to the table with the tines facing down as shown in the diagram to the right.

2. Hold the lighter with your right hand underneath the fork near the top of the handle where the head of the fork meets the handle. (See diagram to the right.) *Do not hold the lighter too close to the fork because it could catch fire. You only want to heat it up. (This part of the craft is for adults only. Children should not use lighters.) When the fork starts to melt and bend remove the lighter and bend the head of the fork down so that it meets the handle. Hold it in place for about ten seconds until the plastic hardens.

3. Break off the two middle tines by just snapping them off. Place your fingernail on the tine where you would like it to break off and then bend the tine up until it snaps off.

4. Color the bent fork with the Gold Sharpie marker or other permanent marker where the head of the walrus will be.

5. Glue two pom poms just above the bottom of the tines as shown in the picture.

6. Glue on two wiggle eyes.

7. Place the handle of the fork in your pocket and let the walrus hang down over your pocket.

2. Print out the Patterns and cut them out. Use them as a template and place them on a plate. Place the tips of the flipper patterns on the edge of the paper plate and trace around the pattern then cut them out.

3. Trace the muzzle and tusk pattern onto the plate and cut them out.

4. Glue the bowl to the top of the cut paper plate and paint them. Also paint the muzzle and flippers. Use only a very small amount of glue. If you use to much, you won't be able to stick the toothpicks whiskers through the dried glue. You really don't need any glue because the whiskers will keep the tusks and muzzle in place. The glue is just to keep them in place while you work.

5. Glue the tusks and muzzle to the face. Then punch toothpicks into the muzzle to make the walrus' whiskers.

6. To finish glue on the flippers so that they bend outward. This will enable you to stand the walrus upright. Glue on googly eyes.

1. Clean and dry the milk jugs. Fill the bottom of one milk jug with sand to give it some weight. Cut the handle off the other milk jug and glue it to the top of the weighted milk jug as shown in the picture.

1. Make the four legs first. Cut the top edge off the cups. Cut a line all the way down the side seam to the bottom of the cups. Roll the cups up so that they are smaller on the tops of the cups as shown in the picture. Cut off the parts of the cups that hang over. Glue the sides together with a low temp hot melt glue gun. Squeeze the top of the cup together and glue closed. If you don't have a glue gun, staple them together. Glue or staple the legs to the top of a paper plate. (Glue the front legs on as shown in the picture. Glue the back legs on the opposite way.) Paint the legs white. Use a black marker to draw on the footprints. Cut out a small tail and glue it to the plate.

2. Turn another dinner-sized paper plate upside down and glue or staple it on top of the plate with the feet and tail.

3. To make the head, cut two one-inch slits in the rim of the cup about 2 inches apart so that it fits onto the rim of the polar bear's body. Cut ears from another Styrofoam cup and glue them to the head.

4. To finish, cut a circle in the top plate a little smaller than the rim of your bowl. Place the bowl inside the plates. You can glue it down or leave it so it can be removed.

Bottle Polar Bear Craft for Kids

1. Cut the rim off the 3-oz Dixie cup and the top 3" of the soda bottle so that the cup fits snuggly onto the bottle. Glue it to the top of your soda bottle as shown in the picture. Paint the cup and bottle white with acrylic paint. You will have to use at least two coats of paint. Let dry.

2. Roll up pieces of fun foam and glue closed to make the legs and arms. Cut the ends to fit on the bottle. Glue them onto the bottle with a hot melt glue. Cut the paw end rounded and glue closed. Draw on toes, eyes, and nose with a black Sharpie marker.

3. Cut ear shapes from white fun foam and glue to the head as shown. Paint the insides of the ears pink.

2. Paint one 6-inch plate black and let it dry. Then fold it in half to make the wings.

3. To make the body fold the large paper plate in half and cut a 1/2" slit up one end of the folded side of the plate. (Use the Body Pattern above as a guide.) Fold up the edges as shown in the pattern and the picture above. Glue the paper plate together in the belly area. Glue the wings onto the body just at the top as shown in the picture.

4. Use the head pattern (above) as a guide to fold the head from a paper plate. First fold a 6-inch plate in half. Fold both ends of the plate back and then forth at the fold lines (using the head pattern as a guide). Push the folded center line in on each end of the plate to make pleats as shown in the diagram at the right. Glue the pleats closed. Use the pattern as a guide to paint the puffin's head or you can cut out the puffins head and glue it to the paper plate.

5. Use the feet pattern to cut feet from card board. Fold the feet in half and then fold up both feet. Stick the folded edge of the feet into the bottom of the folded large paper plate and glue them to the paper plate. Glue the rest of the body together along the inside edge of the plate.

6. Glue the head onto the body as shown and then glue the rest closed.